I want to wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I will see you in 2017 with exciting and new art to discover. In the meantime, please enjoy this Christmas art as part of the Christmas and New Years holiday. Thank you for being there with me.
Best Wishes,
Mario
Keith Mayerson "Empire in the Snow," 2015 Oil on linen, 70 x 30"
Sandow Birk
Jaime Becker
Andrea Brown
Franco Castilla
Alika Cooper
Alice Konitz
Laida Lertxundi
Julie Orr
Katie Shapiro
Andrew K. Thompson
Jenny Yurshansky
curated by: Mario Vasquez
Last Projects
6546 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, California 90028
Gallery hours thurs-sat 3-7pm
Los Angeles based artists look at the landscape as metaphor, allegory, and reflection. In the 16th century when the Spanish explorers viewed the coast off present-day Los Angeles, they witnessed forest fires in the hills above San Pedro harbor. The native Americans referred to the Los Angeles landscape as the “Land of the Smokes.” The relationship between “smoke” and the Los Angeles landscape is also a metaphor between a place that always teeters on disaster, and the use of smoke to create a fantasy; that which blurs the line between the reality and fiction. Each of the artists in this exhibition explore the Los Angeles landscape and its many facets including the natural and the built. The Los Angeles landscape is also about oppositions; paradise and hell; fact and fiction; male and female; fantasy and reality; wealthy and poor. The artists use the Los Angeles landscape as an exploration of these dichotomies.
